Northern Alberta junior hockey team loan deferred by city council
Grande Prairie city council is giving the local Alberta Junior Hockey League team a break on loan repayments.
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Council to lobby HS2 again over 'concerns' in planned M56 and Metrolink changes for high-speed rail project
Manchester City Council plans to contest 'issues of particular concern' contained in proposed changes to the law that would bring the controversial HS2 railway to the region. They include 'major' changes to junction six of the M56 motorway and nearby highways, together with the design's impact on Metrolink.
U.S. Soccer council calls on Congress for SafeSport changes - ESPN
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — The Center for SafeSport's policies put athletes in harm's way, the U.S. Soccer Athletes Council said Wednesday, calling on Congress to take action.
Tan Chuan-Jin resigns from various organisations, including Singapore National Olympic Council
SINGAPORE: Former Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin has resigned from his roles in various organisations following news of his extramarital affair with Member of Parliament Cheng Li Hui.
American-style trailer parks could help solve borough's council house waiting list crisis, local politician says
American-style trailer parks could help solve a borough's council house waiting list crisis, a local politician has claimed. Councillor Bob Brierley offered the idea up at a Wigan town hall meeting.
New park, 'City of Sanctuary' and transport concessions - everything heard at Manchester full council
Key issues of transport, green spaces and the refugee response were all on the cards as councillors filled Manchester Town Hall on Wednesday.
"To Refresh Memory": Asian Council's Blunt Reminder To Pakistan Minister Over Asia Cup Remark
As Pakistan continues to change its stance on the venue chaos pertaining to the Asia Cup and the World Cup, a senior Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has sent a firm reminder to the nation's Sports Minister who threatened to not send his team for ODI World Cup in India. The Sports Minister Ehsan Mazari said that Babar Azam's men will not travel to India for the World Cup if the BCCI doesn't send its team to Pakistan for the Asia Cup. After Pakistan Cricket Board boss Zaka Ashraf and BCCI secretary Jay Shah met in Durban, however, it was finalised that the Asia Cup will indeed be held in the proposed hybrid model.
UN Security Council votes to end peacekeeping mission in Mali
Also, in the arid lands of Cameroon's Far North region, a region already having to contend with incursions by the jihadist group Boko Haram, drinking water is a rare commodity. To solve this problem, the Cameroon Red Cross has set up a solar pumping system, rehabilitated a drinking water production station and built standpipes in the Makary district of the Logone and Chari department, on the border with Chad. Our correspondents report.